Yardley News

About 20 volunteers planted 15 trees in two of Lower Bucks County's waterfront boroughs earlier this month.

Mary Jane McCarty has seen her designs in print, but never on the big screen. So, when she was tipped off that they might be glimpsed in the recent documentary The September Issue, she had to see for herself.

Lower Makefield supervisors plan to leave the leaves to someone else and turn their attention to long-delayed plans for more township recreational facilities.A preliminary 2010 township budget recently adopted by the board includes dropping the township leaf collection program and its corresponding $40 per-household fee.

James Biear stole from newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer's grandson Kenward Elmslie, the police say.

Police have charged a Yardley, Pa., motorcyclist who was injured in an accident Sunday afternoon with driving under the influence.

Newtown Township's fire marshal is investigating a Thursday late night blaze at a home on the 600 block of Linton Hill Road, Fire Marshal Don Harris said.

When 90-year-old Sam Snipes was a boy in the 1920s, Falls Township was a bucolic place with about 2,500 people.

The Rev. Stanley A. Powell Jr., rector emeritus of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 86 Pinewood Drive, Levittown, will mark the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood with a two-day celebration the weekend of Nov.

BOOKS TO GO: Forget the Kindle , the newest eBook reader on the block is the Nook .

A Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Publishing Co. executive has been named chairman of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.

Members of the Lower Bucks County Chamber of Commerce are unsure how to respond to the legislation that would restrict carbon emissions.

In the three centuries since the French-Irish Doyle family settled its land grant from William Penn, Doylestown has gone through a number of transformations.

Bucks County's libraries laid off 20 employees this week and will reduce hours next month, due to a 21 percent cut in state funding.

Emcor Government Services is moving its office in Arlington. The provider of electrical, mechanical, structural, HVAC, plumbing and other engineering services just signed a 28,554-square-foot lease at 2800 Crystal Drive.

Three Penn State graduates from southeastern Pennsylvania and Ohio are the brains behind FanGamb.com, where people can wager on college and professional football games without real money.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie's biggest problem in the last three weeks before the election may not be Gov.

Rachael McGuiggan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom McGuiggan of Richboro, received the Northampton Lions Club Scholarship Award.

The long range plan is to build two floating docks for dozens of large and small boats along the waterfront park in Bristol.

At the helm of Robinson are Sharon Laudenbach, Jim Sheil, Barbara Axelrod, Robert Axelrod and Nance Center Despite the impending harsh reality of having to close two of its stores -- in Jenkintown, Pa., and Cherry Hill, N.J. -- later this month because of pressing economic conditions, Robinson Luggage, a major and trusted member of the local ...

The success of Bristol's Hallow E'en demonstration is assured. Although the permanent associations and the various committees have hardly got down to work the responses to invitations to participate in the great spectacular parade on Monday, November 1st have been so general and spontaneous that a great demonstration upon that occasion is ...